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Hunting with a Hawk
By Russell A. Graves
While it takes years to become a falconer, enthusiasts say it's worth the effort.
Wading through this field of rocks and three-awn grass is a bit paradoxical. While the overgrown meadow has a distinctively rural feel to it, about 10 miles to the south I can see the Fort Worth skyline jutting from the Trinity River banks. [read more]
This Month's Features
Reviving the Trinity
By Henry Chappell
The Trinity River vividly demonstrates the inextricable links between urban and rural Texas.
If the bottomland hardwood forest along the Trinity River, near Tennessee Colony, isn't quite as vast and ancient as The Big Woods of William Faulkner's novellas, it is, in places, old enough and grand enough to put me in mind of a passage from "Delta Autumn": [read more]
Testing the Waters
By Larry D. Hodge
The Environmental Contaminants Lab helps solve toxic mysteries.
Janet Nelson, a member of the golden alga sampling team, bursts through the back door of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Environmental Contaminants Laboratory in San Marcos laden with water samples. [read more]
2008 Lone Star Land Steward
By Tom Harvey
Llano Springs ranch wins the state's top conservation award.
Dig into the story of any Lone Star Land Steward Award-winning property, and you usually find that family bonds form the conservation bedrock. You also see that land stewardship starts in childhood. [read more]
